Before workers who, according to Marxism, is a worrior to defeat the supposedly unfair system of capitalism and is expected to build a socialism, stand against the capitalism, they can not help confronting capitalists by whom they are hired.

They, however, don't want to defeat their owners because they will lose everything without the capitalists.

Marx's famous aphorism that proletariats will lose nothing but chains by communist revolution is not true because they have something to lose, such as their own life, their family, and above all their jobs by virtue of which they live and raise their family.

In other words, they have a labor power which is the resource for their living and raising family as Marx already ever described it.

Proletariats have something to lose which is named labor power. The key point is that it is useless without a place in which labor power is executed or sold.

It is true not that proletariats have nothing, but that proletariats possess a work place which is a condition of the existence of labor and laborer. Workers, therefore, can not extremely confront their owners because capitalists is a condition of the existence of workers and they conceivably believe that without capitalists workers cannot exist any more.

Not until the capitalists, the only thing that laborers possess and the precondition of existence of propertiless people are defeated, laborers lose everythng. In capitalist society, employers and employees have something in common. That's why Marxist expectation that socialism will be built by proletariats is not realized in this real world.

by Frozen Pollack